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- - Virginia Tech formalizes commitment to boost tech talent for commonwealth
    As expected, Virginia Tech’s agreements with the state – one outlining undergraduate growth and one for graduate growth – include $167.7 million in capital funding for the Innovation Campus’s first academic building in Alexandria and $69 million in capital funding for a data and decisions building in Blacksburg.
- - Commonwealth Cyber Initiative hosts researcher workshop to increase cross-state collaboration
    CCI will leverage Virginia’s diverse and innovative universities, research excellence, the ecosystem of industry, and the density of cybersecurity talent.
- - Test bed for 5G wireless security will accelerate cyber research in Virginia
    The test bed, a powerful resource for researchers, companies, and government agencies exploring 5G technology, is a flagship project of the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative.
- - Research team to study information latency with $7.5 million Department of Defense grant
    From 295 proposals received for the prestigious grant, the Department of Defense selected 24 final awards, including a Virginia Tech-led team.
- - Updte: Military Appreciation football game flyover has been canceled
    The U.S. Air Force will send the aircraft from the 6th Airlift Squadron at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey, to fly over the stadium while the Highty-Tighties, the Corps of Cadets regimental band, are playing the National Anthem.
- - Commonwealth of Virginia invests in aerospace industry, universities to stimulate economic growth
    The Virginia SmallSat Data Consortium, a collaborative research center co-led by Virginia Tech and Old Dominion University, has been awarded a $1.5 million grant from the Virginia Research Investment Fund. The initiative aims to position Virginia as a leader in satellite and data collection and stimulate economic growth in the aerospace sector.
- - Xiaoting Jia wins CAREER award to develop bio-friendly brain implants
    Jia, an assistant professor in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been awarded the National Science Foundation award to develop a multifunctional neural interface device that is highly flexible, scalable, clinically translatable, and bio-friendly.
- - Don Maffei named interim chief executive officer of the Virginia Tech Applied Research Corporation
    Maffei has served since 2017 as the vice president of finance and administration for the organization, which helps forge connections between Virginia Tech's research enterprise and industry and government groups seeking technological and data solutions.
- - Google Faculty Research Award supports work in detecting human-object interaction in images and videos
    With the award, Jia-Bin Huang will tackle challenges of modeling the relationship between a person and relevant objects/scene to gather contextual information and mining hard examples automatically from unlabeled but interaction-rich videos.
- - Hybrid Electric Vehicle Team places second in first year of EcoCAR Mobility Challenge
    The team will receive a 2019 Chevy Blazer in August 2019, which they will modify to incorporate their designs from year one.
- - Harpreet S. Dhillon named Elizabeth and James E. Turner Jr. ’56 Faculty Fellow
    A member of the Virginia Tech faculty since 2014, Dhillon has earned a reputation of being a talented researcher, having consistently produced seminal research results that have been extensively cited and utilized by his peers worldwide.
- - Researchers look toward future 6G wireless systems
    In the white paper titled, "A Vision of 6G Wireless Systems: Applications, Trends, Technologies, and Open Research Problems," Walid Saad, associate professor in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech, explores the future of wireless communication systems.
- - Chance encounter becomes a career of innovation for alumnus Steven Bathiche
    Responding to a flyer on a bulletin board in Whittemore Hall led electrical engineering alumnus Bathiche ’97 to a decades-long career at Microsoft, where he’s helped pioneer some of the company’s most innovative interfaces.
- - Virginia Tech engineers victorious with another first place at agBOT
    The agBOT competition consisted of two separate contests: a weed and seed event and a competition to design an autonomous system that can collect, store, and prepare a soil sample for analysis.
- - Three faculty members named to lead planning for university shared research facilities
    These three accomplished researchers are part of the inaugural cohort of the Faculty Fellows Program of the Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation, which puts faculty leaders at the forefront of strategic research initiatives.
- - Eric Paterson, Jeffrey Reed to fill leadership roles in strategic university initiatives
    Paterson has been named interim executive director of the Ted and Karyn Hume Center for National Security and Technology. Reed will step in to serve as interim executive director of the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative.
- - A sprint to the finish for Virginia Tech Blockchain Challenge finalists
    On May 9, five student teams will compete for $25,000 in prizes as part of their systems capstone course called Blockchain Technologies.
- - Meet the GameChangineers of Mecklenburg County
    A team of teen Virginia 4-H’ers opens up a learning pathway to coding for students in Southern Virginia.
- - Fralin Fellow uses engineering to improve the biomedical field
    Elieser Mejia, a senior majoring in electrical engineering, is passionate about advancing the field of medicine while bridging the disciplinary gap between electrical engineering and neuroscience.
- - Researchers aim to enhance lost person search and rescue efforts using drones, artificial intelligence
    Thanks to a $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation, a group of Virginia Tech engineers hopes to redefine search and rescue protocols by teaming up human searchers with unmanned aerial robots, or drones.

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